Tyler [off-list ref] wrote:

figured out what you put below, i'm wondering though, will changing the 
structures here affect anything else? other than the mdadm tool.. what 

I can't think of anything, offhand.  I would first check through the
kernel cde looking for associated gotchas before worrying about trivia
like applications, however!

about mkfs.ext3/xfs and possibly mount?

Not affected at all. They have no knowledge of such things.

You want to look for anything that uses md_p.h. I assume that is
"nothing", since applications will use md_u.h.


Peter